Los Angeles: DreamWorks Animation's 'Mr. Peabody And Sherman' has become a box office victory in its second week of release, while the highly expected car racing film 'Need For Speed' trailed in third.
The 3-D animated 'Mr. Peabody And Sherman' a comedy about a hyper-intelligent, time-traveling dog and his adopted boy, took in an estimated $21.2 million in ticket sales in its second weekend, falling 34 percent as predicted by its studio, Xinhua reported.
To date, the kid-friendly film distributed by 20th Century Fox has grossed $63.2 million in 10 days in North America.
Last week's champion "300: Rise Of An Empire" plummeted 58 percent to $19.1 million. The first "300" had dropped 54 percent in its second weekend. So far, the sequel has collected $78.3 million.
This week's debut "Need For Speed", which is based on a video game that has sold more than 140 million copies, opened in third place with $17.8 million in sales at 3,115 locations.
3D theaters accounted for 43 percent of this 66 million DreamWorks Pictures' revenue. The audience gave the movie a "B+" CinemaScore. Only 24 percent of critics show thumb-up to it from Rotten Tomatoes.
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